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Business History Review archives from December 1997
Private banking in antebellum Virginia: Thomas Branch & Sons of Petersburg.
December 22, 1997... The role of private banking in financing the growth and development of the American economy remains shrouded in mystery. Twenty years ago Richard Sylla depicted the antebellum private banker as a "shadowy and often neglected figure."(1) Though a...
The National Recovery Administration and the rubber tire industry, 1933-1935.
December 22, 1997... The story of the American rubber tire industry during the Great Depression is instructive for understanding the processes of cartelization and the role of government policy in the formation of cartels. Rubber tire manufacturing was a major...
The Reichskuratorium fur Wirtschaftlichkeit: Fordism and organized capitalism in Germany, 1918-1945.
December 22, 1997... Among the many problems Germany faced at the end of World War I, one of the most difficult was regearing the economy for peacetime production and providing a framework for economic recovery from the lost war. The task was all the more difficult...
Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business Community, 1700-1850.
December 22, 1997... Edited by Conrad Edick Wright and Katheryn P. Viens Boston, Mass.: Northeastern University Press, 1997. xiv + 450 pp. Photographs, notes, maps, tables, illustrations, figures, and index. $42.50. ISBN 0934909709.
Reviewed by Sven Beckert...
Character is Capital: Success Manuals and Manhood in Gilded Age America.
December 22, 1997... By Judy Hilkey Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. ix + 210 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0807823538; paper, $17.95. ISBN 0807846589.
Reviewed by Walter A. Friedman
Failure is perhaps...
Wall Street: A History.
December 22, 1997... By Charles R. Geisst New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 404 pp. Endnotes, bibliography, index, and illustrations. $30.00. ISBN 0195115120.
Reviewed by Edwin J. Perkins
This book is primarily aimed at the commercial trade market, and...
A Social History of American Technology.
December 22, 1997... By Ruth Schwartz Cowan New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. x + 342 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0195046056.
Reviewed by Regina Blaszczyk
Historians yearning for a lively synthesis of scholarship on American...
Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950.
December 22, 1997... By James P Kraft. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. x + 225 pp. Appendices, notes, sources, photographs, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0801850894.
Reviewed by Marc Jeffrey Stern
Following in the tradition of David...
The Blues: A History of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System.
December 22, 1997... By Robert Cunningham III and Robert M. Cunningham, Jr. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. xiii + 313 pp. Photographs, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $36.00. ISBN 0875802249.
Reviewed by Kirk Jeffrey
The late Robert...
WCFL: Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926-78.
December 22, 1997... By Nathan Godfried Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xix + 390 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0252065921.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf
Nathan Godfried's history of WCFL is an important...
The World According to Hollywood: 1918-1939.
December 22, 1997... By Ruth Vasey Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. xv + 299 pp. Photographs, tables, notes, works cited, and index. Paper, $17.95. ISBN 0299151948.
Reviewed by James P. Kraft
Scholars from various fields and disciplines have studied...
Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World.
December 22, 1997... By Joseph Turow Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiv + 242 pp. Notes and index. $22.50. ISBN 0226817490.
Reviewed by David Paull Nickles
In June 1980, Jerry Della Femina, advertising agency head, remarked, "there's nothing...
Concorde and the Americans: International Politics of the Supersonic Transport.
December 22, 1997... By Kenneth Owen * Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. xvi + 232 pp. Photographs, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, notes, and index. $35.00. ISBN 1560987367.
Reviewed by Jacob Vander Meulen
This study of the...
The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945.
December 22, 1997... By Thomas F. O'Brien * New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 356 pp. Maps, photographs, sources, and index. $52.95, ISBN 0521550157.
Reviewed by Helen Shapiro
Thomas E O'Brien's book is an ambitious, comparative study of how...
Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital and Technology in Britain and America.
December 22, 1997... By Gary Bryan Magee * New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi + 293 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0521581974.
Reviewed by Kevin Whitston
Gary Bryan Magee's book on the paper industry is a skillful...
Industry and Air Power: The Expansion of British Aircraft Production, 1935-41.
December 22, 1997... By Sebastian Ritchie * London: Frank Cass, 1997. xvi + 283 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, index of aircraft and aero-engines, and general index. $49.50. ISBN 0714647241
Reviewed by Peter Botticelli
For most historians, the story of...
European Enterprise: Strategies of Adaptation and Renewal in the Twentieth Century.
December 22, 1997... Edited by Margarita Dritsas and Terry Gourvish * Athens, Greece: Trochalia Publications, 1997. 310 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index ISBN 9607809025.
Reviewed by Harm G. Schroter
This volume consists of a general introduction and...
Rationalisierung und Industriearbeit: Arbeitsmarkt, Management, Arbieterschaft im Siemens Konzern, 1900-1939.
December 22, 1997... By Heidrun Homburg * Berlin: Haude & Spener, 1991. xxiii + 806 pp. Notes, tables, appendices, bibliography, and index. ISBN 3775903291.
Reviewed by J. Ronald Shearer
In this massive piece of scholarship Heidrun Homburg combines a thorough...
Les Deux Revolutions Industrielles du XXe Siecle.
December 22, 1997... By Francois Caron * Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1997. 525 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 2226094059.
Reviewed by John V. C. Nye
For the last decade or so, Francois Caron has been interested in studying the development of modern...
The Economic Growth of Singapoer: Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century.
December 22, 1997... By W. G. Huff * Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Paperback, 1997. xxi + 472 pp. Figures, maps, tables, notes, appendix tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $74.95. ISBN 052137037X; paper, $24.95. ISBN 0521629446.
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